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W. P. FEST.

CARRIAGE DOOR LOCK.

Patented Feb. 28, 1888.

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L lTED STATES ATEN rrica.

WILLIAM P. FEST, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO J. B. BREWSTER & COMI- PANY,OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CARRIAGE DOOR LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,582, dated February28, 1888. Application filed September 12,1887. Serial No. 249,429. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM P. Fnsr, of Brooklyn, Kings county, andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCarriage-Door Locks, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore the side and face plates of carriage-door locks have beenmade in a single piece, each being a fixture of the look, so that it wasnecessary to apply both plates, together with the lock, to the door.

The object of my improvement is to enable the face-plate through whichthe bolt passes to be applied separately from the side plate and theother portions of the lock, so that the face or edge of the door may bevarnished and finished after the faceplate has been applied, but beforethe balance of the lock has been applied, so as to produce an evenfinish of the varnish over the face of the door and the faceplate and atthe same time avoid the clogging of the look by the materials used invarnishing and finishing.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front View of the carriage-door with theportion of the panel in front of the lock broken away. Fig. 2 is a faceor edge view of the door on a reduced Fig. 3 is a sectional plan viewthrough the line or :0, Fig. l.

a a are the side panels of the door.

I) is the portion of the frame forming theface of the door.

c is the glass of the window,which, as usual, is opened by being pusheddown into the 0118.111 ber between the panels a a.

d is the doorjamb.

e is the bolt of the lock, which fits into a suitable recess in thedoor-jamb.

f is the handle by which the bolt is operated from the outside of thedoor.

9 is the handle by which the bolt is operated from within.

It will be unnecessary to dcscribethe mechanism for communicating themotion from these two handles to the bolt, since it is of the ordinaryconstruction in use for carriagelocks, and forms no part of the presentinvention.

h is the side plate of the look. i is the faceplate. Heretofore thesetwo plates were formed of a single piece of metal, both being fixed tothe works of the lock. In the construction which is herein described,however,

they are made of separate plates, and the plate z is provided withlugsjj, which overlap the edge of the plate h, as shown, and which aresecured to the plate It by screws havingtheir heads on the outside ofthe plate h when in position, so that the plate i may be connected tothe frame 12 by suitable screws before the plate h and the parts of thelock connected therewith are in position.

In preparing the door for the lock the panel a is recessed in the usualmanner, so that the works of the lock may fit in the recess, while theplate It is flush with the outside of the panel. When this recess isformed and also a recess for the faceplate 2', the face-plate t isplaced in position and securely screwed to the frame I). Then thecoach-door is varnished and finished, the varnishing and finishingprocess being carried on so as to produce an even finish and make nojoint between the wood-work and the face-plate. No careis re quired toprevent the materials used from get ting onto the parts of the look, asheretofore,

and the lock is not in any way injured. After the door is varnished andfinished, the plate IL, with its attached lock mechanism, is secured tothe panel a and the lugs j, and the trimming is then applied to theinside of the door.

If at any time it is desired to remove the lock for the purpose ofrepairing, this may be done by removing the plate It without disturbingthe plate 73, so that the finish around the face-plate of the door willremain intact.

The advantages referred to above are very important where the effort isto make ahighlyfinished carriage, since with the old construction it wasimpracticable to place the lock in position and then finish the door soas to make a good finish at the joint between the faceplate and thewood-work.

I claim- In combination with a carriage-door, a lock adapted to bemortised'into the door, having its face-plate separable from andindependent of the side plate, and said face-plate being provided with alug or lugs overlapping the side plate, and suitable screw-holes wherebythe side plate can be made fast to the faceplate when the latter is inposition on the door, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

D. H. DRIsooLL, W. A. RABAN.

WM. P. FEST.

